👋 On time for your weekend: a round-up of this week’s remarkable stories at the intersection of #technology, #business, #design, and #culture.
📚 Reading
Coordination Headwind:
When the coordination headwin looms, there's a solution: time. Lots and lots of it. Team bonding events. Heaps of 1:1s. Strategy summits. Collaborative debate. Lots of "preventive maintenance" to preemptively build trust accross organizations. And lots and lots and lots of tracking spreahsheets. The amount of additional time and effort required is immense.
🌪 A visual narrative, done emoji style, by Alex at Komoroske
False Positivism:
The problem with planetary-scale computation isn’t that its potential is compromised by impractical applications, ideological criticisms, and a lack of recursive models. The problem is with scale itself. It fails to reckon with what we might call the deep time of facts: their historical heterogeneity, their capacity to change unpredictably in response to interventions, and their variations across geographical and cultural contexts
⏳ 18-minute read by Peter Polack in Real Life
Human History Gets a Rewrite:
Is “civilization” worth it, the authors want to know, if civilization […] means the loss of what they see as our three basic freedoms: the freedom to disobey, the freedom to go somewhere else, and the freedom to create new social arrangements? Or does civilization rather mean “mutual aid, social co-operation, civic activism, hospitality [and] simply caring for others”?
🤔 12-minute read by William Deresiewicz in The Atlantic
🎧 Listening
The Principles of Persuasion:
We like people who like us. Genuine compliments that people give us. Praise, that we give to others. And if we do that honestly [..] that it's important to let people know we like them. So, it's not just that we like people who are like us, we like people who do like us.
👯♀️ 64-minute chat with Robert Cialdini on The Knowledge Project
How Networked Tribes Govern Through Alignment:
These networked tribes that have developed are going really quickly, the patterns that are curating are becoming more and more complex, and reaching into more areas of personal life. It's becoming a negative effect in that it's too overreaching.
😡 48-minute chat with John Robb on Red Beard Radio
“Build or die”:
[E]very company has really had to become a great builder of software and digital experiences. And in that world, all those companies [..] they need a supply chain of companies that specialise in delivering the various things that you need in order to then go and build on top of it. And that’s what has happened over the last 10, 15 years: the digital supply chain for the Internet has emerged.
🏗 59-minute chat with Jeff Lawson on Danny in the Valley
👷🏻♀️👷🏻♂️ Friends’ Work
👩🎨 30-minute presentation by Adriana Lakatosova on Ecosystem Innovation & Citizen Designers at Intra.NET Nordic 2021
📬 Suggestions?
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